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Links Week Starting 11th April 2022

by Bob Raikes

Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. Here are a few from the first part of this week. ICDT in China to be postponed because …

Tags:Advertising| Apple| Dell| Desktop Monitors| DOOH| Game Playing| iPhone| Manufacturing| MiniLED| MMD (AOC Philips)| OLEDs| Pricing| Projectors| Qualcomm| Semiconductor Market| sony| Supply Chain| Testing| Thunderbolt| TVs (TV Sets)| USB| Virtual Sets

LED Walls for Virtual Production With Gary Feather

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Broadcast Bridge reported a talk by Gary Feather at the HPA Tech Retreat in which he talked about the developments in virtual production made possible by the drop in LED …

Tags:Events| Small Pixel Pitch LED SPP| Virtual Sets

Achieving Better Storytelling With LED Walls In News

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Broadcast Bridge reported on the increasing use of LED displays in the production of news and sports broadcasting. For example, the Opening Ceremonies for the 2022 Winter Olympics in China had …

Tags:Broadcast| LED| Video Wall Processors| Virtual Sets

HPA Shows Virtual Production is Real – Easy, Economic

by Andy Marken

We figured this year’s HPA (Hollywood Professional Association) Tech Retreat would be “a little” slow after two years of people going to the set, getting sent home, starting/stopping projects and work. Personally, our biggest …

Tags:3D Content Creation| GPUs| HPA Tech Retreat| LED| Virtual Sets

Links Week Ending 11th March 2022

by Bob Raikes

Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. Here are (quite!) a few from the second part of this week. 8K screens to see the Sagrada …

Tags:Application Processors| CPUs| Desktop Monitors| Mediatek| MMD (AOC Philips)| Samsung| Smartphone Market| Super Hi-Vision (8K)| Testing| Touch| VideoConferencing| Virtual Sets

RGB is Not Enough for Virtual Production

by Bob Raikes

Last week, I went along to an event run by SMPTE UK and hosted by ETC that covered the interesting topic of virtual production using LEDs. I learned a lot! In a ‘small world’ …

Tags:Cameras| Colour Grading| LED| Lighting| Post Production| TV Production| Virtual Sets

Brompton Looks For Difficult Problems

by Bob Raikes

There are some companies that seem around an industry that I never seemed to catch up with, even when I was attending a lot of events. Often they are one step removed from the …

Tags:LED| Pixel Processing| Small Pixel Pitch LED SPP| UK (United Kingdom)| Video Wall Processors| Virtual Sets

Macroblock Talks Up Virtual Production and MiniLED

by Bob Raikes

Macroblock is always an interesting company to engage with as the firm has a dominant position in the supply of driver chips for LED direct view displays around the world. It also supplies drivers …

Tags:Display Drivers| Game Playing| HDR - High Dynamic Range| LCD Backlights| LED Drivers| MiniLED| Small Pixel Pitch LED SPP| Variable Frame Rate (VRR)| Virtual Sets

Links 15th December 2021

by Bob Raikes

Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. We normally put these out on Tuesday and Friday, but we have already built up quite a few, …

Tags:Android| Apple| Desktop Monitors| Digital Signage| Game Playing| iPhone| LG Electronics (LGE)| Remote Controls| Retailers| Smart TV| STBs| Virtual Sets

Dark Slope Studios pushes Virtual Production to its Limits

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Dark Slope Studios based in Toronto has developed what it calls its Hyperreality Initiative that allows the virtual production to be integrated with live action and games engines to allow unscripted …

Tags:Game Playing| TV Production| Virtual Sets

Links Week Commencing 29th November 2021

by Bob Raikes

Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. Here are a few from the first part of this week. Mobile phone museum celebrates ugly and iconic …

Tags:BBC| Broadcast| Consoles| Desktop Monitors| Electronic Shelf Labels (ESLs)| France| OLEDs| Perovskite| Small Pixel Pitch LED SPP| Smart TV| Smartphones| sony| Streaming Video| TPV (TP Vision)| USB| Virtual Sets